Hi, I lead the Vuln R&D team at Rapid7 and we have a job opening (see below). No going through recruiters, no battling with HR, you just contact me directly. Simple !

Thanks,
-marc

Job Title: Info Sec Engineer
Position based in: El Segundo, CA

Rapid7 provides network security software and related research. We develop NeXpose, a unified vulnerability management solution that is primarily sold to large companies and government agencies as a standalone Linux/Windows application or as a pre-configured appliance.

Rapid7 is looking for a Software Engineer to become part of this Vulnerability R&D Team. Requirements:

o Minimum 2+ years of professional software development experience, preferably in an IT security field.
o Demonstrated interests in the computer and network security field, low-level and internals aspects of technologies, and vulnerability research and exploitation.
o Excellent coding skills in Java, C, or C++.
o Perl, Python, shell scripting, Jess (Java expert system shell) a plus.
o Good foundation in networking, have developed networking code, knowledge of the design of at least some common network protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP, FTP, etc).
o Experience in a Unix/Linux environment.
o Ability to understand technical subjects and technologies you might not be familiar with.
o Experience in working in a team of 5-10 developers on a medium-to- large-scale project (100k-1M lines of code) project a plus.
o Skills in resource organization, project/task prioritization and schedule development.